This they failed to do and to end the sorry spectacle an order came that the executioner should cut his head off.

I haven't got the stomach for another sorry spectacle like that.

In truth, he presented a sorry spectacle, being literally plastered with mud.

A man in love is a sorry spectacle.

And from that point of view, the Democrats present a sorry spectacle.

Ten of them there were in all, guarded by ten soldiers, and they made a sorry spectacle.

Zheng had swallowed a great deal of river water, and presented a sorry spectacle.

It would have been difficult to say which presented the sorrier spectacle, the room or its owner.

Or rather that, once again, we are surrendering to the sorry spectacle of division and power struggles?

She seemed to find the sorry spectacle possessed of an infinitely humorous quality.